I knew I had a heart murmur so when at age 68, I'd awaken with numb hands and feet, I thought it was the heart slowing down. I'm entitled to a mistake but one night I was watching Kenneth Branaugh on Masterpiece theatre Mysteries as Curt Wallender, Swedish mystico dick and the guy suddenly faints into a diabetic high sugar coma. He wakes up in hospital & find out that he has HONK, Hyperglycemic Ketosis and I suddenly realized THAT was what I HAD. I was diabetic! My feet and hands getting numb every night while I slept was HIGH BLOOD SUGAR. Of course, I had a half a Hansen's soda a day, really, could nurse a can for three days. By third day fizz was slowing down. (I was going easy on sugar so as not to bother my terrible LOW BLOOD SUGAR problem. Anything sweet gave me the munchies bad. But I did like Oats, Bible bread and TORTILLAS!
I knew I couldn't eat sweets but I drank an oz of beer (sitting next to bed, tepid,) every time I woke up, to put me back to sleep. MAJOR insomniac! There's a lotta carb, sugar and alcohol in that stuff and when you're outcold, the sugar really mounts up in your blood. That gave me the numbness. I googled around to see what I couldn't eat and should eat. Oddly, Beer was not on the good foods list. Huh! Waddya make of that? I will have to switch to cheese maybe as the munchies wake me during the night. Or just use an oz. every night. See if that works. Meanwhile there is the situation of using SUPPLEMENTS that heal the pancreas, like CEDAR BERRIES and JUNIPER BERRIES. Chromium, cinnamon also the many foods that heal pancreas. http://www.nutricoach.net/low_gi_foods.html has a list of dishes which are low glycemic.
My pal the book vendor, Trish her name, said she'd had some numbness (called diabetic neuropathy.) in hands and feet before she was diagnosed. She told me: " if you do have a big rise in blood glucose -- drink lots of water to thin it! I learned that on a Yahoo diabetes board." She confides that getting her carbs under control helped tremendously! Rule of thumb, eat one serving of carbohydrates (15 grams of carbs) per 10 pounds of body weight, up to a max of 15 carb servings a day. Well, that sounded like a FREE PASS to mashed potatoes! Some Hotcakes. Some waffles, Maybe some beer. She tried to explain to me how to tell the carbs in a food: And I listened:
Total the whole carbs.
Minus all the fiber grams.
Minus HALF the sugar alcohol.
Equals the amount of carbs in the food.
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Example:
Corn chips-- 1 serving (10 chips)
Carbs-- 18 grams
Fiber-- 1 gram
Sugar Alcohol-- 2 grams
18 grams total,
-1 (fiber)
-1 (half of sugar alcohol)
equals 16 grams of carbohydrates, or 1 carb serving
Not being a math whiz or having a fondness for looking up grams of carb,
just micky mouse it and get 15 carb servings a day. Remember l0 chips is
a frito binge, 11 would be a cold, hard coma. My pal also instructed: "Carbohydrates,
of which sugar is just one, are the real culprits in diabetes. Cavemen
had none or few carbs, especially no refined carbs, (cake flour, bread,
baked goods, candy), so they rarely had diabetes. (Seeing Amazonian natives
eat tubers full time, I can't believe that cavemen weren't familiar with
some form of carb binging.) Europeans developed a resistance to it as they
learned to sow grain (plus the grain was always whole grain when eaten).
When wheat was introduced to the non-diabetes resistant Native Americans,
diabetes took right over! Although corn is a carb, it was ground and used
as a whole grain usually. There were no honeybees in America before the
Europeans came, so only fruit syrups, or syrups made from tree saps were
available, usually not year-round. Thus, people had beautiful teeth, and
very little diabetes. Today, our American Indians are a mess, they eat
that fried Navaho bread, drink like fishes and are all chubby & diabetic.
So first thing you do finding out or even suspecting you're a diabetic
II posterchild is to keep track of your carbs, and see if the numbness
doesn't improve.
Me Heap Love My Carbs.
Just hate the
Insulin I have to dress
it with.
ANOTHER GLYCEMIC CHART http://www.southbeach-diet-plan.com/glycemicfoodchart.htm
Well, I read further online, found that there are even pancreas HEALING FOODS. One is a green leaf the Arabs eat called Fenugreek. All Arab or Middle Eastern markts have Fenugreek. I love meat and greens so it sounded terrific! They may have another name for it, so go to the Arab market and ask them to show it to you. Or google the herb online, memorize the graphic!
Hulba (Meat in fenugreek paste) 6 servings
¼ cup Ground hulba (fenugreek) Cold water
2 Hot chilis (more if desired)
Salt
1 Tomato; peeled and chopped
¼ cup Chopped onion OR- spring onion
2 Garlic cloves; crushed
¼ teaspoon Hawayij spice (ask the middle eastern grocer!) HAH-WAJI
pronounced
1 cup Finely chopped boiled lamb OR- chicken
1 cup Boiled lentils
1 tablespoon Chopped coriander leaves
2 tablespoons Clarified butter or oil
1 Bone (or chicken stock)
Place fenugreek in a bowl and add cold water. Leave to soak for 5 hours.
Pour off water and beat until frothy with a fork. Remove stalks and
seeds
from chilis and chop finely (take care in handling them, don't touch
eyes). Blend into
fenugreek paste with salt to taste and place in a pot. This is the
actual
Hulba. Add remaining ingredients except the stock or substitute some
of the
ingredients with whatever is on hand, e.g. diced boiled potatoes for
rice,
cooked dried beans for lentils. (For 1 cup cooked lentils, simmer 1/2
cup
red lentils in 1-1/2 cups water for 15-20 minutes until thick.) Blend
ingredients in pot and add enough stock to moisten. Place over medium
heat
and cook, stirring occasionally, until bubbling and thick. Add a little
more stock during heating if necessary. Adjust seasoning with salt
and
serve in a deep bowl with khobz, malvj, or the readily available
Lebanese
flat bread for scooping up the mixture. Serve in individual bowls if
preferred.
And the American foods that are GOOD for Diabetes:
http://www.prevention.com/health/diabetes/14-fantastically-healthy-foods-diabetes?cm_mmc=Diabetes-_-760948-_-12272011-_-14-Foods-That-Fight-Diabetes
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